Tā zhīdào zìjǐ láirì bù duō, zhǐ xiǎng zài huí yí tàng lǎojiā.
He knew he did not have long left, and only wished to go back to his home town once more.
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Literary; it survives in set phrases: 来日方长 'there is plenty of time ahead', said to comfort someone or to put something off, and 来日无几 'not long left to live'. In classical texts it can also simply mean 'tomorrow'.
